Keyword type (joe)

A Keyword is a symbolic value, and one of the basic Joe types. A keyword is an identifier with a leading hash symbol, e.g., #flag. They are commonly used in Joe code in place of enumerations, especially to identify options in variable length argument lists.

Initializer

• Keyword(name) → Keyword

Methods

• keyword.name() → String
• keyword.toString() → String

Keyword Initializer

Keyword(name) → Keyword

Creates a new keyword given its name, without or without the leading #.

Methods

keyword.name()

keyword.name() → String

Gets the keyword's name, omitting the leading #.

keyword.toString()

keyword.toString() → String

Gets the keyword's string representation, including the leading #.